The Handmaid’s Tale finished third overall for the week and second among original series behind Netflix’s Sirens, which ...

· In a glitch of their equipment, Nielsen said ratings for the USA Network were under-reported for five days (July 28-August 1, 2007). Nielsen said only USA ratings were affected.

It’s easy to understand why people are ambivalent, or even hostile, toward ratings. The thinking goes something like this: 1. People love the shows that they love, a lot 2. Some of these shows ...

Nielsen confirmed Friday that an “equipment issue” was to blame for the problems, which underreported USA Network ratings from July 28-Aug. 1. The nature of the equipment problems wasn’t clear.

Nielsen, whose long-held TV ratings are already under scrutiny, told TV networks it undercounted out of home audiences for months. Plus Icon Film Plus Icon TV Plus Icon What To Watch ...

In 2006, Nielsen let an unemployed <i>me</i> represent roughly one percent of all TV homes in L.A., and half of one percent nationally.

That is not to say that now, with college students added to the count, that Nielsen ratings are the end-all-be-all calculator of what people are watching. This is hardly the case.

The Nielsen ratings are under ... It also led to the Nielsen undercounting — the company didn’t send field techs to homes to monitor the equipment — which means networks may have ...

Nielsen’s decades-old track record of measuring the TV business was dealt a serious blow Wednesday after an industry organization decided to suspend its backing of the company’s national ...

Nielsen has been hoping to move its customers to its updated ratings product for years, promising in 2020 that it would take away traditional panel-only ratings in 2024 “and just do it in this ...

In the fall of 2003, ratings and TV usage for Men 18-to-34 declined notably, the broadcast networks took issue with Nielsen. As a result, Nielsen issued a 43-page rebuttal defending the ...

Network executives believe the New York City-based company undercounted its audiences. Nielsen relies on 40,000 homes nationwide that agree to have measurement equipment installed in their ...